Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important is the discrimination in favor of those wealthy enough and smart enough to go to college. Under the latest plan, a student could stall off his draft board for years...
...tactical surprise achieved by the enemy when he attacked; the second was the high quality of his army. The sinewy, spring-legged little men of North Korea had good equipment and they knew how to use it. They handled their hard-hitting, Russian-made tanks well; they were smart, tireless infantrymen and they were close to wonderful with mortars and artillery. At one stage of the battle a U.S. soldier observed bitterly that they could drop a mortar shell "in your hip pocket...
During September, nearly $300 million in U.S. cash moved across the border for investment in Canada. Much of it was smart money from speculators who thought they saw a sure thing. Canada's trade was brisk, her U.S. dollar reserves mounting to a record high. The Canadian dollar was obviously worth more than its quoted price of 90? U.S., and revaluation seemed certain. If it should be hiked to its old par value of 100 U.S. cents, an investor would stand to reap a quick 10% profit...
...Frost is a poet with few disciples. Today's bright young men look to the intricate, mannered, literary methods of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden for their models. They grudgingly admire Frost as a kind of 19th Century relic, resent his commanding popularity, and smart under the reproach: "If Frost can make himself intelligible...
...handsome deb Sir Gladwyn Jebb At Lake Success Has made a mess Of that Smart Alec Whose name is Malik. How Uncle Joe Must hate the show-His bright boy beaten, By Gad, by ETON...